Monthly Archives: March 2019

Best Zinger Line of the Day

is from Elie Mystal, a clever online provocateur who shows up periodically on Up–David Gura’s informative, underrated Sat-Sun. early a.m. MSNBC show on the tube. In discussion about why Trump’s kids are fair game for investigation, quoting their ages first … Continue reading

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St. Paddy’s Day: It’s All about the Music!

Imagine a St. Patrick’s Day sans Irish music. Pretty lame, eh? It does not get better than the highly-recommended 2-CD-set called Irish Celebration, pictured below. All the famous Irish tunes and classics are included. A must for the Celtic music … Continue reading

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The Money Obsession Carried to Its Extreme

Grocer in India beheads a couple who owed 29 cents and asked for more time to pay up. Craziness and obsession with money = extreme violence and cold-blooded murder. Money and the making of it is often more important than … Continue reading

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Robert Frost’s “plane of higher regard”

turns out to be connection and connectedness, those moments when one is aware of being engaged and immersed in someone or something else, that raises one to heightened feelings and states beyond customary separateness and isolation. The connection might be … Continue reading

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Musing

(my first favorite twentieth-century poet) There are no more courses to roll the universe into a neat Eliot ball to say ‘This one thing is It’, will work forever infallibly and permanently for one and all. There is only now … Continue reading

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Man vs. Nature: Man Buggers It Up (Again)

For a second time, some male dope has decided to swim in the off-limits Sulphur Mt. hot pool for a world-rare snail population, partially destroying their habitat. The first guy who did it was found smoking a cigar in the … Continue reading

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Man vs. Nature: Nature Wins

Edmonton forecast Wednesday was for thawing this weekend starting Saturday. Yesterday morning forecast suddenly changes to 1-2 cms snow possible in afternoon. Changes instead to 10-20 cms. of snow in a flash, causing numerous accidents this morning. No, weather forecasting … Continue reading

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Trudeau: Ever the ‘Artful’ Dodger

Slinks out of Ottawa and heads north to Iqaluit of all places to apologize for historical mistreatment of Aboriginal tuberculosis. He has to go cry cue and give away millions more to make up for and cover up for his … Continue reading

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Blog (and Book) Recommendation Today:

noquitinme.ca A fellow ’60s Wallasey St. and SHCI guy who has successfully, and quite remarkably, beat off tongue cancer. John Kuby is a great-spirited survivor and thriver. Look for info on his tell-all book there, too. (Review to follow here.) Two … Continue reading

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The Yardbirds

(as close to the original recordings reproduced live on DVD) A unique 1960s UK band who was also The Lead Guitar Band of my high-school days. I first tripped over them in 1964 and their first hit “For Your Love” … Continue reading

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